Anime otaku are despairing over the news that the Winter 2010 anime season will see only some 16 new series airing, compared to 24 the year prior, a decrease of a third.
The list of new Winter 2010 anime runs along these lines (give or take a few depending on what is included as “TV anime”):
Baka to Test to Shōkanjū
Chowder
ChuuPara
Dance in the Vampire Bund
Durarara!!
Gundam UC
Hanamaru Youchien
Hidamari Sketch×☆☆☆
Kaitou Reinya
Katanagatari
Ladies versus Buttlers!
Nodame Cantabile Finale
Okami Kakushi
Omamori Himari
Seikon no Qwaser
Sora no Woto
Winter 2009 saw some 24 titles, and Winter 2008 26 or so.
The flood of low quality moe anime over the past few years seems to have proven unsustainable, if not highly damaging, just as many predicted – just whether this is the popping of an unsustainable bubble to be followed by a gradual recovery, or the symptoms of a longer term decline remains to be seen…
I think I count like 3 or 4 shows there. I literally can’t tell most of them apart.
And nothing of value was lost!
Chowder? The “Chowder” from the Cartoon Network? I think that’s funny. If the Anime bubble has indeed burst, it surely needs a rest and a deep inner-search into it’s purpose in life and what it wants to achieve in the future. It is up to the producers and creators if they want to continue providing an endless (and tiresome) litany of panty flashes and sexually charged plots regarless of logic and reason, or to create, once in a while, thoughtful and critically noticeable material.
Cobra is the proff things will now get better, it was that kind of animes that started the cult that later lead to the anime fandom everywhere.
Hmmm, the abundance of moe-l♥♥i/slice-of-life anime I see….seriously this s♥♥t is getting old.
Anime sucks right now.